I am using the Jetbrains Toolbox tool to auto-install updates to IntelliJ IDE. This works well for regular releases.
But how do I use this tool to obtain an Early Access pre-release?
I see a hexagon-shape icon that displays a menu. But the menu items there say nothing about skipping ahead to a pre-release. The items there are only Settings, Roll back to…, and Uninstall. I checked the Settings display, but no options there to enroll in the Early Access program.
Redundant product listing
Scroll down to the item at the bottom that redundantly lists your licensed product, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.
Click the Install Again pop-up menu. Choose the pre-release version you want.
After download completes, you will see another product listing at the top of the app list.
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I'm not sure if this is an intellij version control or SVN issue, but is there a way to disable all auto subversion / version control update checks in Intellij?
When you click the version control tab at the bottom of the IDE and look at local changes, the lists often say "Updating...".
I want to use subversion, but for huge projects the "updating" in intellij version control sometimes takes a good 10 minutes, and it starts randomly for no reason, even when I have not made changes. I checked the settings and I don't have "check every" or "refresh every" options checked under subversion.
Basically I never want Intellij to stop checking the whole project and server every time I make a small change to a file.
When you click the version control tab at the bottom of the IDE and look at local changes, the lists often say "Updating...".
This means IDE is refreshing the local status of the files to correctly show them in the Local changes and other respective places. It is not related to remote servers.
It could take long because of e.g. huge number of unversioned files in the project. In this case, adding them to svn:ignore should help.
I want to change the look and feel of entire Webstorm editor. How can I add more themes in the Appearance section?
As of now it lists only 2 option, Default and Darcula.
The 'Theme' dropdown in your snapshot actually refers to Look & Feel in the Intellij/Webstorm parlance. This is also seen if you try doing a View -> Quick Switch Scheme :
Notice that the options in the above correspond to the 'Themes' dropdown in your snapshot.
I would imagine that creating a new Look&Feel would be a non-trivial task. This is somewhat substantiated by https://stackoverflow.com/a/27864988/325742:
Write a plug-in to add a new LAF. Keep in mind this is a lot of work.
It took the JetBrains team a year to develop the Darcula L&F and that
was with dedicated graphic artists to create a whole suite of icons
and recommend color combinations. Since the IntelliJ IDEA Community
Edition is open source, you could use that source code to develop your
plug-in. I'm pretty sure Darcula is available in the community
edition.
Therefore, you may not find a lot of stuff out there that change the whole Look and Feel of a Jetbrains product (like IntelliJ or WebStorm).
However, the best place to look for it would be in the plugins section.
Therefore:
First option: Theme Plugins
Note that, the complete appearance of Intellij changed when I installed this, however the plugins (I tried Material Theme UI) did not appear in the dropdown list.
Second Option : https://github.com/sdvoynikov/color-themes
This is just an editor color scheme and not a full fledged L&F plugin.
Download a color theme from there, then go to File -> Import Settings and choose the downloaded file after which you should see the following:
Finally, restart Webstorm:
how can I modify Visual Studio 2015 to be able to search the internet (my fav search engine happens to be google) from the context menu in the code editor?
Ideally, I would like it to open as a new tab in my (default) external browser, because the internal web browser is still...lacking, shall we say?
I found one extension "web search" for older VS, but I have found no extension that works with VS 2015. I found no article that still works.
For comparison, when you're in Chrome, you can select some text, right click and say Search Google for 'what you selected'.
I think this would be handy when learning new technologies from a project that uses those technologies, or just for help.
Ok this turned out to be fairly easy. I just added a tool to Tools, External Tools
Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Arguments: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#newwindow=1&safe=active&q=%22$(CurText)%22
I enclosed the $(CurText) variable around quotes (%22) so that it would search on the exact phrase.
Then, to make it more accessible and actually put it in the context menu (and other places), I clicked the Move Up button to make it the first command, then customized the Standard toolbar to include Tools.External Command 1. I also added it to Other Context Menus | Html Context and Editor Context Menus | Code Window
Then I also went into Tools, Options, Keyboard and associated Tools.ExternalCommand1 with Alt+G
IMPORTANT: Because Visual Studio (still, in 2015) doesn't save some modifications to the IDE until it shuts down, you need to shut down all other instances of VS and then lastly shut down the instance that you used to enact these IDE modifications for them to "stick". And, if VS 2015 is like previous versions, be prepared for the menu / toolbar modifications to simply go away one day, at which point you'll just have to redo them.
So I've pressed Do not show this dialog in the future (screenshot taken from the web).
It's been a while and now I want to change default reformat behavior.
I can't seem to find an option to show this dialog again.
Update 2015/10:
In current versions of IntelliJ (and likely Android studio and other IntelliJ based IDEs) there no longer seems to be this option as it is not needed.
⌘+Alt+L no longer shows the dialog, instead it directly reformats the file and gives you a hint that you can display the dialog using ⌘+Alt+Shift+L. That dialog no longer includes Do not show again option.
For older IntelliJ versions these dialogs can be re-enabled in Settings/Editor/General:
Newer versions of IntelliJ or Android studio the dialogs can be found under Settings/Editor in Formatting section
I have just installed IntelliJ 9.0.2 on a machine running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04.
How do I get another window to put on my second screen?
I would like to have both an editor and some tool windows on both screens.
All 'windows' inside of IntelliJ other than the code editor tabs have a "Float" option which pops open an independent window which you can drag to anywhere on your screen. This will allow you to manage your IDEA windows however you like.
IntelliJ also allow you to open multiple projects at once. When opening a project with one already opened, you are prompted as to wether you would like it in your current window or a "New Instance". If you choose new instance, it will open up a completely new IntelliJ with the other project in it. This will work for you if you have many projects you work on at once.
IntelliJ 14 and onwards you can select the settings cog and tick floating mode to detach menus, or drag editor tabs off the main window to detach them
If you're running on OSX you'll need to make sure it's not treating the screens as separate spaces, otherwise they'll snap back onto the same window as the main editor when switching between windows.
To do this untick Displays have separate Spaces in the Mission Control System Preferences.
IntelliJ 10 will have draggable & dockable editor tabs. A very nice feature. It's already present in the early access versions.